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I’ve been on a gigantic yak-shave over the last week, across 3 threads, 53, 61 and 62 in my meta-thread, linked end-to-end so you can start reading here. 53: automating project management 61: project managing network effects 62 anti-network effects
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53. Automating project management twitter.com/vgr/status/140…
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The general idea I’m groping towards is connecting project management, OODA loops, network effects, and potential fields in a useful way to try and get at why project management both sucks as a task, and if done poorly ends up doing more harm than good.
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Hard to tell if anyone besides me is interested in this particular headspace. People liking/RTing these threads don’t fall into any obvious pattern, so not sure where this belongs socially. Somewhere between potential theory, productivity, complex systems, conflict theory.
Ahhh, I've also been circling Andy Grove's line "first let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos" for a while on a parallel track. This is kinda the how-to thread sequence. First search hit is from 2016!
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"First let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos" (Andy Grove) applies to how you manage your own brain too.
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Then in 2017. Twitter search is great for doing detective work on your brain, it's better than therapy. It's like longitudinal protocol analysis.
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"First let chaos reign" [me]😬[/me] "Rein in the chaos" Been on the edge of chaos for almost a year now
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In May 2020, here I am actually declaring an intention to develop a management model based on the quote.
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Trying to develop a management model inspired by the internet Andy Grove: First, let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos Internet: First let chaos reign, then... ooh squirrel
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Passing mention in a thread on media of management that I'd forgotten I'd done
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None of the 3 vertices is stable. You kinda have to rotate through them. Generalization of Andy Grove line "first let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos." Just a 3-way version.
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Hmm. Should I call this whole theory Chaos Rain Theory? CRT? Is the namespace collision with critical race theory, cathode ray tube etc. funny or distracting?
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The destructiveness of legibility is probably a radioactively hot topic in any administrative space. It's excellent. What if the cuts were an approximating graph. But my interest in your threads definitely doesn't reflect on their usefulness, I just like fun ideas I can follow.
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